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Old 1st Dec 2018, 2:16 pm   #1
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Default Early TV chassis I.D. help needed

I recently was lucky enough to acquire a TV chassis found during a house clearance in Shropshire. It came with no tube or enclosure. The only valves I can identify are a Mazda AC/VP1, an Osram X41, a TDD4, another Osram starting with MU and ending with a 4, plus 2 others, where the marking has come off. There is a terminal from the transformer marked Motor, so I assume it was a radio/TV and record changer combination. Any help with identification would be much appreciated. I am considering getting a compatible tube and restoring the chassis, but I am not sure yet. Thank you!
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Default Re: Early TV chassis I.D. help needed

Which part of it suggests that it's a TV chassis?
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Default Re: Early TV chassis I.D. help needed

I think it could be a pre-war radiogram chassis, perhaps with TV sound. I don't think it's a TV chassis.

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That looks like just a radio chassis to me, possibly from a radiogram, or could even be from a TV radiogram combo, but to make it work as a TV would require the TV chassis as well as this radio chassis. The random floating valve socket is probably for a magic eye valve.

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Actually, looking closer the extra valve base isn't for a magic eye! More likely used for connecting up part of the gram parts...

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I agree a radio chassis.Note motor feed on the tx. Possibly Marconi?
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Thank you all for your replies, it was the floating socket that threw me! It did seem a bit simple to be a TV, unless there was an additional chassis.
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Thanks again everyone, at least I don't have to find a tube for this! Mods this thread can be closed.
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